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to be extremely bad or unpleasant: I think her whole attitude stinks. His acting stinks but he looks good, so he's offered lots of movie roles. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
1. : to emit a strong offensive odor. stank of urine. 2. : to be offensive. the election stank of corruption. also : to be in bad repute. 3. : to possess something to an offensive degree. stinking with wealth. 4. : to be extremely bad or unpleasant. the performance stank. that news really stinks. stinky. ˈstiŋ-kē. adjective.
Stink definition: to emit a strong offensive smell.. See examples of STINK used in a sentence.
If you say that something stinks, you mean that you disapprove of it because it involves ideas, feelings, or practices that you do not like. [informal, disapproval] I think their methods stink. [VERB] The whole thing stinks of political corruption. [VERB + of] Synonyms: be bad, be no good, be rotten, be offensive More Synonyms of stink.
When things stink, they smell terrible. If you throw food scraps in your kitchen trash can, it will eventually start to stink. You can say that something stinks — your dog's breath, or your brother's feet — and you can call the offensive odor itself a stink.
to be extremely bad or unpleasant: I think her whole attitude stinks. His acting stinks but he looks good, so he's offered lots of movie roles. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
n. 1. a strong foul smell; stench. 2. slang a great deal of trouble (esp in the phrase to make or raise a stink) 3. like stink intensely; furiously. vb ( mainly intr) , stinks, stinking, stank, stunk or stunk. 4. to emit a foul smell.
To be of low standard or quality; be no good. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To be in extremely bad repute. His name has stunk ever since that scandal. American Heritage. To be very offensive; be hateful or abhorrent. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To have much or an excess. Webster's New World. More Verb Definitions (3)
STINK definition: 1. to smell very bad: 2. to be very bad and dishonest: 3. to complain about something in a…. Learn more.
stink. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English stink1 /stɪŋk/ verb (past tense stank /stæŋk/, past participle stunk /stʌŋk/) [ intransitive] 1 to have a strong and very unpleasant smell It stinks in here! stink of His breath stank of alcohol.
